“Allah will gather the people on the Day of Resurrection … and they will pass over the Bridge. The Bridge is as sharp as a sword, slippery and treacherous …” The hadith continues at length. Al-Ḥākim narrated it (4/589–592) and said: “It is authentic, and Abū Khālid al-Dālānī is among those whose hadith are collected.” Al-Dhahabī rejected this, saying: “What an objectionable hadith, despite the soundness of its chain of transmission! Abū Khālid was a deviant Shīʿite.”
I say: Al-Dhahabī and others included his biography, yet none of them mentioned that he was a Shīʿite. Moreover, scholars differed concerning him. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Truthful, but makes many mistakes.”
I say: Al-Ḥūt cited this passage concerning the Bridge in Asnā al-Maṭālib (p. 123) and said: “Al-Bayhaqī narrated it and said: Its chain of transmission is weak.”
I say: He overlooked this strong corroborating report from the hadith of Salmān!
- “Whenever the members of a household are granted gentleness, it benefits them; and whenever they are denied it, it harms them.”
Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (3/195/1), and Ibn Mandah in al-Maʿrifah (2/29/1), from Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj, who said: Ḥammād ibn Salamah informed us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from